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English name | Theodore I |
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Birth name | ??? |
Term start | November 24, 642 |
Term end | May 14, 649 |
Predecessor | John IV |
Successor | Martin I |
Birth date | ??? |
Birth place | Jerusalem, Byzantine Empire |
Dead | dead|death_date=May 14, 649 |
Death place | ??? |
Other | Theodore |
His election was supported by the exarch and he was installed on November 24, 642, succeeding the short reign of Pope John IV. The main feature of his pontificate was the continued struggle against the heretical Monothelites. He refused to recognize Paul as the Patriarch of Constantinople, because his predecessor, Pyrrhus, had not been correctly replaced. He pressed Emperor Constans II to withdraw the Ecthesis of Heraclius. While his efforts made little impression on Constantinople, it increased the opposition to the heresy in the West; Pyrrhus even briefly recanted his heresy (645), but was excommunicated in 648. Paul was excommunicated in 649; in response Paul destroyed the Roman altar in the palace of Placidia and exiled or imprisoned the papal nuncios. But he also sought to end the issue with the emperor, by promulgating the Type of Constans, ordering that the Ecthesis be taken down and seeking to end discussion on the doctrine.
Theodore planned the Lateran Council of 649 to condemn the Ecthesis, but died before he could convene it, which his successor, Pope Martin I, did. Theodore was buried in St. Peter's Basilica.
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